Wadsworth A Jarrell

Africobra

Experimental Art Toward a School of Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Painter, photographer, and cofounder of AFRICOBRA Wadsworth A. Jarrell tells the definitive history of the group’s creation, history, and artistic and political principles and the ways it captured the rhythmic dynamism of black culture and social life to create uplifting art for all black people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000563
• ISBN-10: 1478000562
• Artikelnr.: 56788812

Autorenporträt

Wadsworth A. Jarrell

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations  x
Black Art and the Black Aesthetic  xv
AFRICOBRA: Principles and Philosophy  xvii
Foreword / Richard Allen May III  xxi
Acknowledgments  xxv
Introduction  1
Black in Chicago  19
Genesis  41
The Wall of Respect  49
The Inception  75
A Visual Art Proposal  91
First Cobra Exhibition  109
Recruitment  119
AFRICOBRA I  129
AFRICOBRA II  171
AFRICOBRA III  209
Postscript / Edmund Barry Gaither  241
Exhibitions  247
Reviews and Media Interviews  249
AFRICOBRA in Art Collections  251
AFRICOBRA in Books  253
Notes  255
Artist Biographies  263
Index  271